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Winnie Yip is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of economics, health professions, and medicine. Their work is especially concentrated within the subfields of general health professions, finance, economics and econometrics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research encompasses a variety of topics predominantly centered on healthcare systems and reforms, healthcare policy and management, global maternal and child health, global health care issues, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, primary care and health outcomes, and health disparities and outcomes.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations, 2020, The Lancet
  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University-Lancet Commission, 2022, The Lancet
  • Long-term care system for older adults in China: policy landscape, challenges, and future prospects, 2020, The Lancet
  • The Case Against Labor-Tax-Financed Social Health Insurance For Low- And Low-Middle-Income Countries, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Hospital response to a case-based payment scheme under regional global budget: The case of Guangzhou in China, 2021, Social Science & Medicine

Winnie Yip has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Hongqiao Fu, Jay Pan, Sian Hsiang-Te Tsuei, Dong Xu, and Duo Xu. These collaborations have supported research output across multiple dimensions of health policy and systems.

Their work has been published regularly in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • Health Systems & Reform
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet

In addition to articles, Winnie Yip has authored books published by World Scientific, including Health care system reform and policy research in China and Health Care Policy in East Asia: A World Scientific Reference, both released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

    John G Meara;John G Meara;Andrew J M Leather;Lars E Hagander;Blake C Alkire

  • Early appraisal of China's huge and complex health-care reforms

    Winnie Chi-Man Yip;William C Hsiao;Wen Chen;Shanlian Hu

  • 10 years of health-care reform in China: progress and gaps in Universal Health Coverage

    Winnie Yip;Hongqiao Fu;Angela T Chen;Tiemin Zhai

  • The primary health-care system in China

    Xi Li;Jiapeng Lu;Shuang Hu;KK Cheng;KK Cheng

  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University–Lancet Commission

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  • Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations.

    Xi Li;Harlan M. Krumholz;Winnie Yip;Kar Keung Cheng;Kar Keung Cheng

  • Does social capital enhance health and well-being? Evidence from rural China.

    Winnie Yip;S.V. Subramanian;Andrew D. Mitchell;Dominic T.S. Lee

  • The Chinese Health System At A Crossroads

    Winnie Yip;William C. Hsiao

  • Long-term care system for older adults in China: Policy landscape, challenges, and future prospects

    Zhanlian Feng;Elena Glinskaya;Hongtu Chen;Sen Gong

  • Harnessing the privatisation of China's fragmented health-care delivery

    Winnie Yip;William Hsiao

  • Realignment of incentives for health-care providers in China

    Winnie Chi-Man Yip;William Hsiao;Qingyue Meng;Wen Chen

  • China's health care reform: A tentative assessment

    Winnie Yip;William Hsiao

  • China's Health System and Its Reform : A Review of Recent Studies

    Adam Wagstaff;Winnie Yip;Magnus Lindelow;William C. Hsiao

  • Non-evidence-based policy: how effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment?

    Winnie Yip;William C. Hsiao

  • Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out of pocket spending for healthcare

    Anup K Karan;Winnie Yip;Ajay Mahal

  • Physician response to Medicare fee reductions: changes in the volume of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries in the Medicare and private sectors.

    Winnie C. Yip

  • The effects of Taiwan's National Health Insurance on access and health status of the elderly.

    Likwang Chen;Winnie Yip;Ming-Cheng Chang;Hui-Sheng Lin

  • The Health Care Systems Of China And India: Performance And Future Challenges

    Winnie Yip;Ajay Mahal

  • Community-based health insurance in poor rural China: the distribution of net benefits.

    Hong Wang;Winnie Yip;Licheng Zhang;Lusheng Wang

  • The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to Economic Growth in China and India

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Linlin Hu;Yuanli Liu

  • Targeted health insurance in a low income country and its impact on access and equity in access: Egypt's school health insurance

    Winnie Yip;Peter Berman

Frequent Co-Authors

William C. Hsiao
William C. Hsiao Harvard University
Qingyue Meng
Qingyue Meng Peking University
Ajay Mahal
Ajay Mahal University of Melbourne
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Peter Berman
Peter Berman University of British Columbia
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Elias Mossialos
Elias Mossialos London School of Economics and Political Science
Teh-wei Hu
Teh-wei Hu University of California, Berkeley
Qiang Sun
Qiang Sun Peking University
Sharon-Lise T. Normand
Sharon-Lise T. Normand Harvard University

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